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Fannie Mae increased its mortgage origination forecast as lower interest rates, driven by economic uncertainty, will lead to more refinance activity, but other factors will continue to hold back home purchases.

Verus Securitization Trust 2019-INV2 is backed by investor loans secured by 1,042 rental properties. The loans were originated by 76 different lenders.

Occidental Management is sponsoring a single-asset, single-borrower deal through JPMorgan backed by the fee simple interest from receivables of a lease-buyback arrangement with Sprint Corp.

China has few alternatives to replace its dependence on the U.S. market for soybeans, its major U.S. agricultural export, according to Moody’s.

Nomura's unit didn't adequately monitor traders who lied to clients about the prices the firm paid for bonds and the amount of profits the traders would receive, according to an SEC statement.

For the first time, the captive-finance lender has also opted to add SOFR-based benchmark rate "fallback" plans into one of its deals, which would stand in for one-month Libor should the London interbank offered rate becomes unavailable in 2021.

Life insurance companies increased their mortgage investments to levels higher than historical norms, creating more potential danger for their portfolios in the event of a real estate downturn, a Fitch Ratings report said.

MPL securitizations have yet to face a credit-cycle test. The discussion over how they will handle one is intensifying.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through July 11, 2019

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through July 11, 2019